7:40 p.m.: The board has approved several contracts, including the contract for the demolition of Terry Heights Elementary.

Also approved was a three-year contract for Heather Bardwell to become principal of Mountain Gap P-8. Bardwell, who is moving from Weatherly Elementary School, was one of the first principals that Superintendent Casey Wardynski hired when he arrived in Huntsville in 2011.

Bardwell is going to replace Tammy Summerville as principal of Mountain Gap P-8.

7:30 p.m.: The board is back from executive session.

7:10 p.m.: The board and its attorney have stepped out for an executive session. The public meeting will resume shortly.

7 p.m.: The board discussed a contract with the City of Huntsville regarding the demolition of Terry Heights Elementary School. District finance director Jason Taylor explained that the district needs to demolish the school to build the new Sonnie Hereford Elementary school anticipated to open on the property in 2016.

The contract calls upon the city to take care of a large portion of the demolition as "in-kind services." The city owes the school district the favor, Taylor said, after the district last year leased the city land for a fire station on Drake Avenue, next to the Huntsville Center for Technology.

The district would have to cover the remaining costs for the demolition, Taylor said, which is anticipated to cost about $50,000.

The contract is up for a vote later this evening.

6:14 p.m.: Superintendent Casey Wardynski officially announced Grissom and Jemison high schools becoming the home of "Greenpower USA," the American branch of the Greenpower electric car races, put on each year by the Greenpower Education Trust out of the United Kingdom. Wardynski made an unofficial announcement last week at an event with the public.

Huntsville Center for Technology students last October were the first team outside of the U.K. to participate in the Greenpower National Finals.

Wardynski said the new Jemison High-McNair Middle campus will have a professional-grade racetrack for high school students participating in the education program.

"It will be the first school anywhere in the United States, to my knowledge, to have a racetrack," Wardynski said.

Whitesburg P-8 will also have a track for middle school students to participate in the program, Wardynski said.

The superintendent said that Huntsville's public schools are now the leaders in the nation for K-12 cybersecurity education and Greenpower education.

"We'll figure out what comes next," Wardynski said with a chuckle.

5:59 p.m.:Jubilant parents and students are having their pictures taken with Superintendent Casey Wardynski as the students are rewarded for jobs well done throughout the school year. With the last day of school looming on May 23, there are dozens of students receiving awards for academic or athletic achievements.

5:30 p.m.: The board meeting is about to begin. The board barely has a quorum, with members Topper Birney and Mike Culbreath absent.